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The advancement of society has resulted in a cultural and geographical homo- geneity known as “placelessness.” The formation of a place is inseparable from individual experience, so it is important to discuss placeness while considering how a place is perceived by individuals. To further explores how people ex- press and represent their subjective image of a place, this paper focuses on the photography of a self-produced magazine “Kijin Denshin”, the outcome of a University-Industry collaborative program in Miyazaki, to suggests a possible kind of photographs, which are widely seen in collaborative program. By re- viewing several classic publications on photography and the photographs used in image-based-method, the paper seeks to explore the potential of the photographs existed in collaborative program as a kind of useful image data for us to under- stand how the people involved in such program view a place. The paper suggests that the photographs of “Kijin Denshin” cannot be categorized as a single type of photography, because the photographs have shown qualities of ordinary snap- shot, research data, travel photos, photojournalism. Under the current state of increasing number of regional revitalization programs, we believe that there are many similar photographs existed in different programs, and by further explore such photography it is possible for us to understand the relationship between people and places in such programs and provide possible insights for the future goal of diverse local communities.
